Fast Facts: The Impact of Early Abuse on Male Sexual and Reproductive Health

The relationship between childhood maltreatment, interpersonal, and family violence and increased rates of engaging in risky sexual behaviors later in life are well established, however most research focuses on female survivors while male victimization remains less studied and less understood. Nearly one third of American women report being physically or sexually abused by a husband or boyfriend at some point in their lives. However, in the absence of societal recognition that males are victims of abuse, boys and men who experience abuse often remain silent - a silence which must be broken in order to prevent their development of adverse and health-compromising sexual and reproductive behaviors, as well as end the cycle of interpersonal violence.

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